Campus
- Downtown Toronto (St. George)
Cross-Appointments
Areas of Interest
His new laboratory utilizes a combination of computer aided molecular modeling, synthetic chemistry (polymers and small molecules) and post synthetic characterization pursuing the design, engineering and application of new materials for application in plastic/organic solar cells..
Keywords: Organic electronic materials (polymers and small molecules), organic solar cells, photoactive materials.
Background
Prof. Bender is an established expert in the field of organic electronic materials, specifically in their industrial application to organic photoreceptive devices. As an industrial researcher, he has filed over 65 US Patents and over time has authored or co-authored 17 peer reviewed papers in the fields of organic electronic materials and polymeric structures.